Sentence examples for extensive declines in from inspiring English sources

These have declined by 90% in the north-eastern Atlantic Arctic over the past few decades as a result of extensive declines in regional sea ice, and the availability of sites for resting and raising pups.

In Tasmania there is emerging evidence that feral cat populations are increasing following wide-ranging and extensive declines in the apex predator, the Tasmanian devil, from a consistently fatal transmissible cancer.

Coastal vegetation such as mangroves, seagrasses, and salt marshes, have undergone extensive declines in abundance, distribution, and CCS over the past century.

Like most biological resources, however, coastal vegetation has undergone extensive declines in global distribution and abundance [13], culminating in the loss of ∼ one-third of the world's seagrass meadows and mangrove forests, and more than one-half of salt marshes, during the past century [14], [15], [16].

As a result, large and extensive declines in water levels substantially altered the direction of groundwater flow in the area from being generally north to south to being toward the major pumping centers from all directions, including along east-west flowpaths from the Rio Grande (Bexfield and Anderholm 2002).

As a result, the large and extensive decline in water levels of more than 100 feet has altered the direction of groundwater flow in the area (formerly toward the Rio Grande) toward pumped wells (Bexfield and Anderholm 2002).

The physiological loss of tissue homeostasis during life is typically concomitant to a progressive and extensive decline in the physical and cognitive performance of the whole organism that is commonly referred to as aging.

And that resulted in them having a very extensive decline". The last survivors retreated to Wales and remote parts of Scotland.

Low precipitation and overexploitation of groundwater resources in recent years have caused an extensive groundwater level decline in this plain prohibiting further development of the aquifer (Fig. 2).

To the Editor: Routine vaccination of children with the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV-7; Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Collegeville, PA, USA), initiated in the United States in 2000, was followed within 2 years by an extensive and rapid decline in invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) (1 ).

Our work suggests that the decline of land use activity may result in a gradual loss of the forest agriculture mosaic, leading to localised declines in biodiversity, despite (or because of) extensive forest resurgence.